From a private collection in EU. ART - ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING - NAIF ART - BRUT ART Superb Signed Original Oil Very bright colors "Interior Scene - Girl Oil Painting signed POUCETTE (1935-2006) A figure of Saint-Germain des Prés... Nicola Ortis Thumbelina, known as "Thumbette of St Germain", is a painter, writer, born November 19, 1935 in Paris, and died in 2006. She became known from the age of sixteen, by offering her drawings on the terraces of the cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Près. In 1958, she illustrated Montesquieu's "Persian Letters", in two volumes; in 1959-1960, she illustrated the twenty-four volumes of Mardrus's translation of "One Thousand and One Nights". In 1961, she was invited to exhibit at the Salon Comparaisons; she exhibited there again in 1974. She had shown some personal exhibitions of her paintings, notably in Paris in 1954, in London in 1956. During a tour of America in 1958, she had several exhibitions personal, as well as during a second tour of America in 1962-1963. She executed important commissions for large wall panels: in 1961, seven for Lord Warwick; in 1967, five for a Swiss palace; in 1968, eight for a London club; in 1972, ten for the yacht of the shipowner Niarchos, various film sets, for example, for the films of Jerry Lewis, She then continues to show her paintings in personal exhibitions, in many countries, Lebanon, Switzerland, United States, etc. The obsessive theme that recurs in many of his paintings is that of the little girl, all the more lost in the crowd and the vast world that she finds herself there, as often in dreams, completely naked. As for the urban settings where these various scenes are located, Charles Estienne compared their naive and linear graphics to that of Vivin A worthy representative of the French School of Naive Art, it is located in the line of painters like Camille Bombois, Séraphine Louis or even André Bauchant.